ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2020
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. In the three months the application was open in 2020, 15,159 young leaders applied to join the Class of 2020 on 1,458 campuses across 135 nations. 80 campuses worldwide (just 6%) were selected to host the 1,000+ Millennium Fellows. The Class of 2020 is bold, innovative, and inclusive.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT INNOCENT PETER OUKO, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2020.
University of Nairobi | Nairobi, Kenya | Advancing SDG 4 & UNAI 3
" I am really excited to join the Millennium Fellowship since I am passionate about connecting ideas that were previously thought to be distinct. I believe that problems do not care about one's specialty. So the need for finding connections that link ideas between and among different fields is vital in creating long-standing solutions. These ideas come from diverse interactions. I look forward to the diverse discussions and interactions. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: ReMed
ReMed is a student-run organization that I cofounded with a group of like-minded colleagues. We decided to start a programme that would teach undergraduates the basics of clinical research since these skills are never taught at that level. Together with a team of highly skilled researcher students and doctors, our main goal is to encourage students to participate in all forms of scientific dissemination, especially in clinical research. With every cohort we recruit, we guide them through a hands-on process on developing simple yet meaningful research projects and develop their means of disseminating scientific communication through presentations and publications. We aim to extend our membership to 80-100 by 2020 and exponentially include undergraduates from both local, regional and global medical schools.
About the Millennium Fellow
Innocent Ouko is a fifth year medical student at the University of Nairobi. He is passionate about nurturing wholesome education and culturing a systems-thinking perspective in people. As such, he describes himself as a Complex Adaptive System, with an ever-increasing interest in any field that would tackle pressing global problems, within and outside the medical field.
